Identity of electrons and ionization equilibrium

Details Identity of electrons and ionization equilibrium Identity of electrons and ionization equilibrium

2010-12-09

arxiv.org/abs/1012.2067v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

It is perhaps appropriate that, in a year marking the 90th anniversary of Meghnad Saha seminal paper (1920), new developments should call fresh attention to the problem of ionization equilibrium in gases. Ionization equilibrium is considered in the simplest "physical" model for an electronic subsystem of matter in a rarefied state, consisting of one localized electronic state in each nucleus and delocalized electronic states considered as free ones. It is shown that, despite the qualitative agreement, there is a significant quantitative difference from the results of applying the Saha formula to the degree of ionization. This is caused by the fact that the Saha formula corresponds to the "chemical" model of matter.

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